"Pegasus \(MVP\)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> "Maxine G" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:Xns9700BB265D950mgusenetatpcgdotnet@207.115.17.102...
>> A while back I got a new hard disk and installed Windows XP on it,
>> leaving Windows ME on my old disk. I have a boot.ini file on my old
>> drive and get
> a
>> multi-boot menu.
>>
>> Almost immediately I started to have unrecoverable disk problems on
>> the
> new
>> disk and didn't have time to resolve it, so it's sitting there unused
> while
>> I continue using WinME on my old disk. I can't boot to XP at all at
>> this time.
>>
>> When the dual boot menu comes up, Windows XP is the default and I
>> have to arrow down to Windows ME to start it. This is a little
>> inconvenient. I've tried a variety of ways to change boot.ini to make
>> Windows ME the default, and nothing works. I either get a message
>> that there's a disk error, which makes me think it's trying to boot
>> to the new disk, or I get a message
> that
>> hal.dll is missing or invalid, which of course it is on the old disk.
>>
>> Here's my current boot.ini file.
>>
>> [boot loader]
>> timeout=30
>> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>> [operating systems]
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
>> Home Edition" /fastdetect
>> C:\="Microsoft Windows"
>>
>> Some of the things I've tried are:
>>
>> 1. default=C:\="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect
>>
>> 2. I tried adding a new menu option
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows ME" /fastdetect
>> But when I tried to boot to that, I got an error message there too.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any ideas about how to solve this. It's not
>> critical, but it would be nice.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Maxine
>>
>> --
>> mgusenet at pcg dot net
>
> Try this:
> default=C:\
>
Geez, I thought I'd tried every combination, but apparently not that one.
It worked. Thanks!
Maxine
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mgusenet at pcg dot net
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